Random Thoughts 1/29/06

• Happy Kansas Day! Kansas – ticking off Democrats since 1861. Kansas became a state, to the chagrin of pro-slavery types, on January 29, 1861.
• I was impressed with Morgan Shurlock's documentary Super Size Me, where he ate nothing but McDonald's for a month – and it nearly killed him. But a Swedish researcher put 18 people on the same diet and none of them developed liver problems like Shurlock did. Only one gained 15% of his body weight and several had little gain at all. The conclusion: eating fast food affects people differently. My conclusion: Super Size Me wasn't as much a documentary as it was propaganda. I agree with Spurlock in general and have all but sworn off fast food myself, but that doesn't mean that Spurlock's experience was anything other than anecdotal.
• We had a young man from our church ship out this morning for Iraq with the Marines. He's actually a Navy Corpsman but he's assigned to a Marine battalion to be stationed in Western Iraq. We're very proud of him and will be praying for him while he's gone. He's 19.
  
• I'm actually looking forward to the Super Bowl this next Sunday, or at least half of it. When Peyton Manning is battling Brian Urlacher, I'll be glued to the game. But when the Bears offense and the Colts defense is on the field… uh, that's another story.
• Though General Petraeus was approved unanimously to be the commander in Iraq, Congress seems bent on opposing the General's efforts there, including this surge. But I wonder if President Bush could have gotten more support for the surge if he'd pretended to be against it?